Join Justin Vivian Bond, Barbara Browning, Vivien Goldman, Karen Finley, Johanna Fateman, Eileen Myles, and Laurie Weeks as they read from the new print edition of PUSSY RIOT! A Punk Prayer for Freedom at Barnes & Noble Union Square on February 7.
In which we talk puppies, cheese-based religions and collectively gawk at Intern Grace and Gabby.
Books. Champagne. Gabby and Katrina. Cute queer single girls. How can you say no? (You can’t. So we’ll see ya at The Strand!)
Topics include karaoke, faith-based slavery in an Angola prison, Greek politics, chronic pain, emotional abuse, Richard Pryor, The Golden Dawn, murder, fantasyland and more!
This week on Pretty Little Liars some casual stalking leads one of our Liars all the way to a lesbian bar! No, for real!
“Help! I just got a strap-on and it turns out I’m not so skilled at using it (yet). How do I learn?”
Laura’s Team Pick: You know how you know your website has really amazing readers? When one of them reads through 236 comments to compile a playlist, it’s a pretty good clue that you’ve got good people hanging around.
Original Plumbing deserves a new website, and in the spirit of brotherhood and the revolution and Autostraddle redesign karmic juices, I’m urging you to make it happen.
Chloe’s beauty is beyond compare, with flaming locks of auburn hair, with ivory skin and eyes of dark coffee. And Intern Grace? Well, her smile is like a breath of spring, her voice is soft like summer rain and no one can compete with her, yipee!
“I took a long bus ride to the “good” school where I could learn how to speak French and be Catholic, where the girls, instead of pretending to be dragons from Harry Potter, gossiped about which Backstreet Boy they’d eventually marry.”
“When asked whether their daughters thought their financial future was dependent on having a husband, only 31.9 per cent agreed. By contrast 37.7 per cent of those with sons thought having a wife would make them financially secure.”
Colorado’s probably going to have civil unions soon! Totally counting these chickens before they hatch; feel ok about it.
I’m going to participate in The Memoir Project and of course I think you should too.
In the first of a series charting newlyweds Robin & Carly’s move from NYC to California, the ladies find a new place, pack and ponder leaving their world behind for a big bright temperate tomorrow!
With groups that oppose gay marriage finding it hard to find money to do so, the tide may be more decisively turning in gay rights’ favor.
Tegan and Sara bring the funny, 25 ways to piss off your girlfriend, and 2 new lesbian web series. There are lots of real life lesbians in this video party. You’re gonna love it.
Hillary Clinton is so over your bullshit.
A Canadian’s take on how backwards the struggle to get immigration reform for same-sex couples has turned out to be.
Vanessa’s Team Pick: Time Out New York magazine thinks you should date Gabby and obviously we wholeheartedly agree.
“We were thirteen years old, and these stories confirmed our suspicions that the world was a cruel, sad place, riddled with surprise tragedies and untimely deaths.”